"Some black liquid, black oil came off on her face, and I walked around and I looked and said "Oh my God".
"There was quarter-sized, nickel-sized, dime-sized drops all over my deck, my barbecue, my table."

Mr Hughes added: "He [the officer] had spoken to somebody down at either the Port Authority or the FAA and said 'Yeah, it looks like there was an incident. Some lavatory excrement had leaked out.'"

A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) could not confirm if the muck came from a plane, but said the agency would begin an investigation.